In L2/98-354 ( www.unicode.org https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98354.pdf ), the following characters were proposed for DEC Technical Character Set compatibility: * E0AE Right ceiling corner DEC Tech 03/05 * E0AF Right floor corner DEC Tech 03/06 However, in L2/00-159 ( www.unicode.org https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00159-ucsterminal.txt ) which was incorporated into Unicode 3.2, those characters were withdrawn: E0AE Right ceiling corner U+2309 (1) E0AF Right floor corner U+230B (1) (1) These characters were in Unicode all along, but the shape shown in the Unicode book was different from the shape on the terminal. However, this is not sufficient reason to have two versions of the same symbol. However, in urldefense.com DEC Technical Character Set (vt100.net) the usage of those characters is explained as being parts of the summation symbol, and the left side of those characters connect to U+2500. As far as I know, the floor and ceiling symbols usually have similar height to brackets (with the horizontal stroke being on bottom or top of the bracket height), and are used in pairs of left and right glyphs, which is completely different from the DEC Tech 03/05 and DEC Tech 03/06 characters. Is there any typographical precedent of floor and ceiling symbols being used with a centered horizontal stroke or with a horizontal connection to other characters?
DEC Technical Character Set summation symbol corners
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